Axe the Tax

As part of its City Watch Project, Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom is launching a statewide project to mobilize taxpayers against the possible attempt by up to 86 municipalities to raise their local sales taxes by 1/2c per dollar. State senators overrode a veto by Gov. Dave Heineman to allow, under LB 357, Nebraska cities to raise their local sales tax rates. In the first phase of this project, NTF is urging taxpayers to vigorously lobby their city council members to vote NO on an enabling ordinance. 70% of a city council must approve such measure, 5 votes in a city council of 7. In municipalities in which city councils do pass enabling ordinances, NTF will work with taxpayers to defeat the ordinance when voted upon at the polls. Please join your fellow taxpayers on Wed. May 9, 6:15 PM at Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Ln, Omaha, to begin the campaign to "Axe the Tax." Special pep talk by Omaha City Council Member Jean Stothert, followed by a short Power Point presentation, then petitions and issue papers to take home, so that you can lobby your city council members. 

AX THE TAX

As part of its City Watch Project, Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom is launching a statewide project to mobilize taxpayers against the possible attempt by up to 86 municipalities to raise their local sales taxes by 1/2c per dollar.  State senators overrode a veto by Gov. Dave Heineman to allow, under LB 357, Nebraska cities to raise their local sales tax rates.  In the first phase of this project, NTF is urging taxpayers to vigorously lobby their city council members to vote NO on an enabling ordinance.  70% of a city council must approve such measure, 5 votes in a city council of 7.  In municipalities in which city councils do pass enabling ordinances, NTF will work with taxpayers to defeat the ordinance when voted upon at the polls.  Please join your fellow taxpayers on Wed. May 9, 6:15 PM at Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Ln, Omaha, to begin the campaign to "Axe the Tax."  Special pep talk by Omaha City Council Member Jean Stothert, followed by a short Power Point presentation, then petitions and issue papers to take home, so that you can lobby your city council members. 

THE GREAT DEBATE

Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom will sponsor a "Great Debate" among conservative Senate candidates on Sunday, April 15, 2012, from 1-3 PM at Walnut Grove Park, 150th & Q Streets in Omaha. Candidates debating are Jon Bruning, Deb Fischer, Pat Flynn, and Don Stenberg. KFAB radio talk show host Scott Voorhees is moderator. Questions will pertain only to taxes, spending, and government regulation. The audience may ask questions of the candidates following the formal 1 hr. 15 min. debate. No vendors allowed. Rest room facilities will be available.

The Great Debate

Bring family, friends, and neighbors to the Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom Tax Day “Great Debate.” Conservative Senate candidates Jon Bruning, Deb Fischer, Pat Flynn, and Don Stenberg will take questions from KFAB Radio talk show host Scott Voorhees on tax, spending, and government regulation issues. Sunday, April 15, 1 PM at Walnut Grove Park, 150th & Q Streets, Omaha. Bottled water provided.

SEMINARS FOR CONCERNED CONSERVATIVES

Don't just sit around and complain....do something!

Join a Taxpayer Watchdog Team! Join our NE Taxpayers Legislative Watch Project to lobby and monitor state senators on fiscal and regulatory issues in the 2012 legislative session. Or, join our City Watch or County Watch Projects to lobby and monitor your local city and county elected officials. Project packets plus
more! Email netaxpayers@gmail.com.

Saturday, February 25, 2012, 10 AM – 1 PM. “House to House.” Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom will present aTea Party seminar on how to become a valuable precinct worker in a candidate or issue campaign. Conservative candidates and petition campaigns will need our energetic assistance in the 2012 primary and general elections. Join us at Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Ln., Omaha.

Saturday, March 3, 2012, 10 AM – 1 PM. “Mouse to Mouse.” Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom willpresent a 2nd Tea Party seminar on how to use new technology and social media to become a valuable volunteer in a candidate or issue campaign. Again, conservative candidates and petition campaigns will need our enthusiastic help in the 2012 primary and general elections. Join us at Westside Community Center, 108 & Grover Streets, Omaha.

Saturday, March 10, 10 AM-1 PM. Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom will host a 3rd
Tea Party seminar on how to become an individual watchdog or member of a
taxpayer watchdog team, to monitor and lobby elected public officials at the local and state level. Join us at Westside Community Center, 108 & Grover Streets, Omaha.
ERICAN MAJORITY IS CO-SPONSORING THESE 3 FREE SEMINARS.

BECOME A CONSERVATIVE ACTIVIST

Saturday, Dec. 10, 10 AM – 12 Noon. Freedomworks, a national tea party organization, with Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom as the local host, will conduct a free citizen activist training seminar at Swanson Library, 90th & Dodge Streets, in Omaha. Learn how to lobby and monitor your elected officials on tax, spending, and regulation issues with the latest political action tools. Learn how to use the “new” media and other means to spread the conservative message for the 2012 campaigns. Take home bumper stickers, pins, T-shirts, and other conservative materials.

BEAT THE BOND ISSUE

Most if not all the members of the Millard School Board are Republicans, and all of them are RINOS (Republicans in Name Only). All but one signed off on an almost $141 million school bond issue that will raise the property taxes for every taxpayer in the Millard School District. These taxpayers are still facing the financial burden of paying off over $178 million for previous bonds. Retirees on fixed incomes will face the brunt of this tax attack. The board refused to wait for the next regular election to request a public vote, so a special election will cost Douglas and Sarpy Counties thousands of tax dollars. The wish list in this bond issue is endless and includes artificial turf on athletic practice fields, on which most other school districts do not splurge. $3.8 million wasted on electronic systems to turn off lights automatically, as if the staff cannot do it. Nothing in this bond issue would improve student learning, yet teachers are propagandizing their students with pro-bond videos at school, hoping that the kids will go home and lobby their parents. The school superintendent threatens to raise property taxes, if residents vote down the bond issue. Apparently, he is intent on raising property taxes either way. Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom has presented this school board continually with suggestions for budget cuts that would save the district millions, freeing dollars for construction and renovation promoted in this bond issue, but the board ignores our suggestions. The leader of the pro-bond front group is the State Tax Commissioner! The school superintendent allowed HIM to speak at a public forum at a Millard high school but refused to allow an NTF member to deliver a rebuttal. Email netaxpayers@gmail.com to volunteer to beat this bond issue!

UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS!

An invitation to all conservatives to attend these upcoming Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom events!

Saturday, October 29, 10 AM – 1 PM. Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom will host a Tea Party precinct organization seminar at Millard Library, 132nd & Westwood Lane, Omaha. This informative and crucially important session will give you all the information you need to become a valuable precinct captain or asst.-precinct captain for an issue or candidate(s) of your choice. Learn how to walk a precinct, put up yard signs, call a precinct, work a poll, hold a coffee or tea, etc. Ballot issues and candidate elections are won at the precinct level! This seminar is free.

LEARN ABOUT GRASSROOTS POLITICS

On Saturday, October 1, American Majority will host, with NE Taxpayers for Freedom, a citizen activist and candidate training seminar at the Regency Lodge, 107th & Pacific Streets, in Omaha, from 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM. Cost is $25 in advance, $35 at the door. Free lunch included. Seminar topics include how to publicize events, how to use the Internet to communicate in politics, and how to handle the media. For registration information, go to the following url: http://americanmajority.org/uncategorized/omaha-ne-candidate-campaign-manager-and-grassroots-activist-training. This daylong seminar is invaluable not only for citizens recently getting involved in politics but also for those political veterans who want to update their skills.

SEND A PINK SLIP TO SEN. BEN NELSON

Join your fellow taxpaying citizens in sending a pink slip to Sen. Ben Nelson. Tell him why, among the many reasons, you will not vote for him in 2012. At this Tea Party event, Nebraska Taxpayers for Freedom will distribute pink slip post cards at Walnut Grove Park, 150th & Q Streets, Omaha, on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 9 AM to Noon. Drive on the park road going north through the park and receive your pink slip post card(s) that you can fill out and mail to Sen. Nelson’s Omaha office. Let him know that you are Tea’d Off at his vote on the Cornhusker Kickback and other of his liberal votes! Bring friends & neighbors in your car to get their post cards, too!